Skegss are on the rise, having toured internationally and had millions of plays on Spotify even before the release of their debut album ‘My Own Mess’. With the album now out, things are set to get even more frantic for the band who already have a touring schedule mapped out until the end of the year, taking them through Australia and Europe. “We’re looking forward to playing a couple new spots like Dublin, and we are stoked Dumb Punts are coming too” the band say of their upcoming European tour, with the support band also hailing from Australia.
The process of writing and recording an album was something the band had never done before. “We demoed all the songs out at this cowboy ranch for a week, before going into the studio to record them properly for the album. We’d never done that before, spent a lot of time on changing songs until they encapsulated exactly what we were looking for. Some songs felt done straight away, but that approach was different compared to the EPs we’d done before” they state of the journey to the completed album that’s out in the world today.
“We’ve been sitting on [the album] for a little while now, and we are ready for it to come out and start playing new songs at shows” they continue. In particular they’re looking forward to playing ‘Harry Mac’, an upbeat yet nonchalant track that shows off how fun Skegss are– it’s easy to imagine that energy being translated to a live show. “That track took a while to get right, it felt like I rewrote the words fifty times” they elaborate on the writing process, but you’d never know it from listening. As for the favourite from the record: “Up In The Clouds, I wrote it on the ukulele and showed the boys one night in Germany. We had a bit of a drunken weep and let off a bit of steam, so it was just a bit of a moment for us when I first showed the boys that song.”
‘My Own Mess’, the debut album from Skegss, is out now. “Hopefully [the album] leads to as many gigs as possible, and people connect to it.”